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PIT Airport Project
Optimizes Horizontal
Drilling Results
By Kevin Gorr, Ryan Coffman,
Luke Beebe, Denise Azuaga Livingston,
Drew Andes and McKenna Czerneski
CANONSBURG, PA.-More than 240 flights carrying some 22,000 passengers
move through the runways and concourses of the Pittsburgh International Airport
every day. But below the PIT complex are the prolific Marcellus and Upper Devonian
shales, and potentially, the deep dry Utica shales that underlie western Pennsylvania.
In 2013, CONSOL Energy entered a partnership with the Allegheny County Airport
Authority (ACAA) to develop natural gas reserves beneath 9,263 acres on PIT
grounds. A dry Utica test well has been approved by federal, state and local
authorities, and will replace a Marcellus well in the 47-well PIT development plan.
The initial plan calls for six horizontal well pads. Dictated by topographical and
environmental features, and the need to avoid obstructing growth of airport
surface facilities, the unique location requires constructing complex wellbore
geometries with high buildup curves and long laterals.
While longer laterals and complex geometries optimize lease development,
improve well economics and increase reserves recovery, they create challenges
related to the surface location, lease boundaries, build sections, landing points,
and torque and drag management.
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